Case-file OCR: Document AI vs Tesseract — a production benchmark
A hard benchmark of two OCR engines on 2,000 pages of Polish insurance case files, including tables, handwriting and low-quality 1990s scans.
Methodology
2,000 pages from 50 cases, 5 categories: typewritten, standard print, tables, insurance forms, handwritten fragments.
Key findings
- Document AI: 98.4% character accuracy, 94% table accuracy
- Tesseract 5: 91.7% character accuracy, 62% table accuracy
- Document AI underperforms by 14% on handwriting below 200 DPI
Cost vs. accuracy
Document AI runs around USD 1.50 / 1,000 pages — for a single opinion (50–200 pages) the cost is negligible compared to the risk of an expert error.
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